Editing 1856 (section)

=== January–March ===
[[File:Philippe Pétain (en civil, autour de 1930).jpg|thumb|110px|right|[[Henri Philippe Pétain]]]]
[[File:ELIZABETH MARNEY CONNER.jpg|thumb|110px|[[Elizabeth Marney Conner]]]]
* [[January 6]] &ndash; [[Martin von Feuerstein]], German painter (d. [[1931]])
* [[January 9]] &ndash; [[Lizette Woodworth Reese]], American poet and teacher (d. [[1935]])
* [[January 11]] &ndash; [[Christian Sinding]], Norwegian composer (d. [[1941]])
* [[January 12]] &ndash; [[John Singer Sargent]], American artist (d. [[1925]])
* [[January 27]] &ndash; [[Telémaco Susini]], Argentinian physician (d. [[1936]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Saller |first1=Lucas |title=Telémaco Susini |url=https://muba.uba.ar/telemaco-susini/ |website=muba.uba.ar |publisher=MUBA |access-date=13 December 2023 |language=es}}</ref>
* [[January 31]] &ndash; [[Hermann von François]], German general (d. [[1933]])
* [[February 2]] &ndash; [[Frederick William Vanderbilt]], American railway magnate (d. [[1938]])
* [[February 4]] &ndash; [[Otani Kikuzo]], Japanese general (d. [[1923]])
* [[February 5]] &ndash; [[Frank Podmore]], British psychical researcher (d. [[1910]])
* [[February 9]] &ndash; [[Hara Takashi]], Japanese politician, 10th [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (d. [[1921]])
* [[February 12]] &ndash; [[Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli]], Austrian general, German field marshal (d. [[1941]])
* [[February 14]] &ndash; [[Frank Harris]], Irish author, editor (d. [[1931]])
* [[February 15]] &ndash; [[Emil Kraepelin]], German psychiatrist (d. [[1926]])
* [[February 17]] &ndash; [[Arnold von Winckler]], German general (d. [[1945]])
* [[February 21]]
**[[Paul Puhallo von Brlog]], Croatian Austro-Hungarian general (d. [[1926]])
**[[Maurycy Gottlieb]], Ukrainian painter (d. [[1879]])
* [[February 26]] &ndash; [[Elizabeth Marney Conner]], American elocutionist (unknown year of death)
* [[March 2]] &ndash; [[Louis Dartige du Fournet]], French admiral (d. [[1940]])
* [[March 4]]
** [[Julius Drewe]], English businessman, retailer and entrepreneur (d. [[1931]])
** [[Alfred William Rich]], English watercolour painter, author (d. [[1921]])
* [[March 8]]
** [[Bramwell Booth]], English Salvation Army general (d. [[1929]])
** [[Tom Roberts]], Australian artist (d. [[1931]])
* [[March 9]] 
** [[Eddie Foy Sr.]], American vaudevillian (d. [[1928]])
** [[Jules-Albert de Dion]], French automobile pioneer (d. [[1946]])
* [[March 16]] &ndash; [[Napoléon, Prince Imperial]] of France (k. [[1879]])<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Gilman |editor1-first=Daniel Coit |editor2-last=Peck |editor2-first=Harry Thurston |editor3-last=Colby |editor3-first=Frank Moore |title=The New International Encyclopaedia |date=1906 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co. |location=New York |page=246 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTorAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 |access-date=10 October 2021 |chapter=NAPOLEON, Eugène Louis Jean Joseph}}</ref>
* [[March 20]]
** Sir [[John Lavery]], Irish artist (d. [[1941]])
** [[Frederick Winslow Taylor]], American inventor and efficiency expert (d. [[1915]])
* [[March 26]] &ndash; [[William Massey]], Irish-born 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. [[1925]])